[PDF] Top 20 Search for heavy resonances decaying into a $W$ or $Z$ boson and a Higgs boson in final states with leptons and $b$-jets in 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt s = 13$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector

... SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of ...America. In addition, individual ... See full document

... tt+jets, W+jets, and Z+jets, are simulated using the M AD G RAPH ...[12] with CTEQ6L1 [13] parton distribution functions (PDF). The single top quark ... See full document

... consistent with originating from hadronic decays of W or Z ...background jets inside a mass window including the W / Z mass is based on the variable D ... See full document

... FIG. 1. Distributions of the invariant mass of the Higgs boson candidates m h ¼ m jj ; m J with two b tags in the SR for the four E miss ... See full document

... P. Vankov 118 , R. Vari 70a , E.W. Varnes 7 , C. Varni 53b , 53a , T. Varol 41 , D. Varouchas 128 , K.E. Varvell 154 , G.A. Vasquez 144b , J.G. Vasquez 180 , F. Vazeille 37 , D. Vazquez Furelos 14 , T. Vazquez Schroeder ... See full document

... three or more lepton candidates can be classified into two categor- ...ies. The first category consists of events with three prompt leptons produced in the decays ... See full document

... For the 2-lepton channel in the eeb¯b final state, the MJ background shape is determined by selecting events with reversed electron isolation criteria and its ... See full document

... 2.0. The calorimeter system covers the pseudorapidity range |η| < ...composed of sampling calorimeters with either liquid argon or scintillator tiles as the active ...media. ... See full document

... Following the discovery of a new particle with a mass of 125 GeV by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [1,2] , there has been an ... See full document

... ¼ 13 TeV. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of ...36.1 fb −1 . This analysis selects events with exactly two opposite-charge muons and classifies ... See full document

... examine the compatibility of the data and the signal-plus-background hypothesis, a test statistic is defined using the profile likelihood ratio method [ 84 ...]. The ... See full document

... for Higgs boson decays to invisible particles (H → ...both the ATLAS and CMS collaborations [ 14 , 19 ...example, the ATLAS Collaboration has placed an upper limit ... See full document

... using the anti-k t algorithm with a radius parameter R ¼ 0.4, and are required to have p T > 15 GeV and jηj < ...than the one described in Sec. III . The flavor ... See full document

... from W → `ν, Z/γ ∗ → ``, W → τν, and Z/γ ∗ → ττ were simulated using the Powheg- Box v2 [ 11 ] matrix-element calculation up to next-to-leading order (NLO) in perturbative ... See full document

... After the event selection described above, the main background in both the single-lepton and dilepton chan- nels is t¯ t+jets ...production. In the single-lepton ... See full document

... theories of physics beyond the standard model (SM) predict the existence of vector reso- nances with masses above 1 TeV that decay into a W or ... See full document

... A search is presented for new particles in an extension to the Standard Model that includes a heavy Higgs boson (H 0 ), an intermediate charged Higgs boson pair (H ... See full document

... microstrip and transition radiation tracking detectors, covers the pseudorapidity 1 range |η| < ...2.5. The energies of photons and jets are measured primarily by ... See full document

... E.L. Gkougkousis 14 , P. Gkountoumis 10 , L.K. Gladilin 111 , C. Glasman 96 , J. Glatzer 14 , P.C.F. Glaysher 46 , A. Glazov 46 , M. Goblirsch-Kolb 26 , J. Godlewski 42 , S. Goldfarb 102 , T. Golling 55 , D. ... See full document

... normalization of the simulated top quark background is corrected with a scale factor de- termined in eight dedicated control regions, defined by inverting one selection criteria and ... See full document